The Ultimate Investment

Pete’s parents worried about him while he was young.  He just wouldn’t discipline himself, nor apply himself to his studies like his older brother — a straight A student.  As he grew, all he wanted to do was watch movies.  After struggling through high school, threatening to drop out several times, he moved from Utah [...]

Paul, for as long as he could remember, wanted to be a rancher.  Yet whenever he talked about it, all he could say was, “There’s no money in it.  You can’t support a family being a rancher.”  So Paul settled into a life of working the best jobs he could get, and hoped that sometime, [...]

Kyle loved working with sound systems.  While growing up he installed dozens in cars, homes, boats, you name it, he installed it.  He bought, sold, horse traded, and even custom built systems for his friends.  It was all he ever wanted to do, all he could think of doing.  His parents were worried.  Kyle didn’t [...]

Sometimes there are roadblocks to Being who you really want to be.  Maybe you have encountered health problems which won’t allow you to get out and be the type of person you really desire.  But don’t be in despair.  It’s what’s inside that makes you who you truly are.  If you can’t realistically act out [...]

Long before Sherman found his wife and got married, he made a long and detailed list of what he wanted in a wife.  After making that list, he made another, equally long and detailed, as to the attributes he would need to be worthy of such a wife.  Sherman then concentrated his efforts on the [...]

There is another way you can work towards Being your best self.  It stems from service.  Nothing can boost your own worth faster than sincerely serving others. Christ said, “whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.” (Matt 20:26-27, Mark [...]

You can rise no higher than the image you have of yourself, and the discipline you exercise in Being.  You control how high you rise by controlling who you become.  The more you approach Being who you have the potential to become, the more successful you are.  At the risk of over generalizing, there are [...]

Kevin was sent to prison for drug abuse and grand larceny.  After a year behind bars, something clicked, giving him a strong desire to get out of prison and never return.  Disciplining himself, he learned to live in every day in a way which would help him be his best self, and “went for it.”  [...]

The process of Being works in a simple but miraculous way.  You transform yourself into the person you ideally could become simply by doing the things that type of person does.  Then, when you’ve been doing those things long enough, you realize you have disciplined yourself into Being the type of person you would most [...]

Keeping a personal journal does more than just record history.  It can help you stay on the right track.  In your journal you will want to record the things you did right, what you learned and how good that felt.  You will also want to record what you did wrong, what you learned, how bad [...]